About

Embers of Waris different from other isometric, tower defense games because it turns your towers into RPG characters. You'll invest time and resources into your tower’s development, making them more destructive!

There are three different games found inside of Embers of War, while primarily a tower defense game, you will also see Role-Playing, Real-Time Strategy, and Turn-Based Tactic elements mixed throughout.

Use the world map to move your Hero, while using the information on the map to decide if the Hero should try to occupy a new territory or use Supplies to reinforce areas that are already under your control.

The goal of the game is to conquer and keep territories, while unlocking Towers and Cores that will allow you to progress further in the game.

Will you pick Gwen for her damage, attitude, grenade launcher, and jet pack?

If not, will Gavin support you on the battlefield with his energy blasts and fantastic beard?

The main gameplay or the tower defense gameplay is divided into two main phases -- Build and Attack. Build Phase consists of building and upgrading towers instantly.

During the Attack phase, enemies will spawn throughout the entire phase in larger and larger waves and towers will take time to build and upgrade.

You may have to use designated tower nodes, but that will be the least of your worries when trying to balance everything else!

You choose how your towers evolve… Will you choose to make upgrades cheaper or should your tower have more health?

Features

Customizable Play-Style

You get to create your own play-style within Embers of War. There are so many possibilities but here are just a few examples:

Choose Cores that allow you to attack your enemy's offense instead of defense

Upgrade Tower stats how you want

Use the Hero that suits your play-style

You can find some tricks for each tower in our #TowerThursday posts found on our social media and developer blog.

World Map Gameplay

You will need to keep track of what is happening around the world and make strategic choices on what to conquer or defend next!

Your World Map will be an essential tool in Embers of War!

Defend Territories

Upgrade Defenses

Unlock Cores

Acquire NEW Territories

Heroes with Personality

Unique Enemies

You'll encounter a wide range of enemies in Embers of War. They won't just stand there and be pummeled by your towers, instead they all have unique abilities you'll need to watch out for!

Some may attack your towers while others will take a more strategic or sneaky approach to get what they want.

Utilize your tower and core combinations to give your Hero the 3 D's, a distraction, some deterrence and a good defense.

You can find some tips for each minion in our #MinionMonday posts found on our social media and developer blog.

Full Economy

Shards to Upgrade Towers

Supplies to Upgrade Territories

Currency Bonuses

History

Dark Rift Entertainment

An independent video game developer, founded on September 1, 2014, by Kevin Cooper, Nigel Nikitovich, and Mike Reardon, and headquartered in Irvine, California.

In October 2015, Lenovo invited Dark Rift to participate in a new program called Game State. Dark Rift saw this as an amazing opportunity to tackle the PC and game console market with their newest game Embers of War.

Embers would be Lenovo's first Game State project to create a crowd sourced, 3D, action-packed, top-down, tower defense strategy game set in a robust Sci-Fi Fantasy universe.

Game State was broken down into four "Missions" that were to last about a month and highlighted the development of a certain aspect of the game. The community would give input, on every aspect of the game, as development progressed over a four month period.

Lenovo held art contests, and during that time the community would vote, and the winning items would be added into the game. Dark Rift would go on to crowd source multiple assets from Lenovo's Game State community for implementation into Embers of War.

In September 2016, Dark Rift was nominated as a finalist for Tech in Motion's Timmy Awards for Best Tech Work Culture in Orange County.